Sunday, January 30, 2022
Last night I was thinking that people who create polls in their instagram stories and share it only with some close friends (cheap way of blocking) have been implementing DAOs even before they existed. They themselves create a proposal(a vote) and only the people who have the tokens(who happen to be in the close friends list) can vote. The only difference being DAOs are serious in implementing the proposals, while *people posting private stories* do it for virtual signalling and do their analysis before coming to the actual implementation of the poll results. Well, I think Graphology is more scientific than their analysis.
If you don’t know what Graphology is, read it here.
If you don’t know what DAO’s are, read it here.
If you don’t know what Graphology and DAO’s are, Hmmmm… check them here.
Humans are social animals, which means we tend to live in communities and forming strong relationships is our normal behaviour. We focus on building strong relations with people, because the better we know them and stronger the relationship is, the more valuable it is for us. However it is a bit counter intuitive when it comes to work places.
In 1973, Mark Granovetter published a famous paper titled - “ The strength of Weak Ties” in which he explains how valuable our weak ties are. Think of it as a bridge which connects two remote islands. If you are living on one island, with people who share the same interest as you, your only chance of disseminating and getting access to the information from the other island is through that bridge - the weak tie between the islands.
Strong ties are important, but the problem with them is that they require too much effort to maintain. We can't maintain more than 150 social stable relationships. Weak ties on the other hand do not require so much of effort. Think of them as numbers in your phonebook, which gets dialled once or twice a year, or maybe once in two years. Think about them as your twitter followers, who retweet that content to their network.
When people maintain strong ties, they generally share the same knowledge, have the same values and have access to the same information. They can be your coworkers or the people you have grown up with. If you need access to information from other department, your strong ties cannot help you with that.
See you on next Saturday, until then have a great weekend :)
Cheers!
Some things that you may find interesting-
Article: Love, loss and a few precious grains of happiness
Video: Why Pilots fear fire
Song I am listening to: Excuses by AP
Thought of the week: “This branch of reality was never meant for deployment to a production environment.”
Here are the last three posts if you were too occupied to read them: